Star Wars Masterpost: For your time travel needs
.Right here we go because this will be a long one. Enjoy folks. Here’s a collection of all the time travel fics I got my hand on. Most of them are Luke or Leia focused. Some completed others not so much and some still in progress,
1. Time and Sand By Scififan33 AU. His last memory is of his nephew killing Snoke so why in the name of the Force is he waking up with twin suns blasting down on him? the Force obviously has a very odd sense of humour. but if he’s here he might as well do some good.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12410879/1/Time-and-Sand
https://archiveofourown.org/works/10364229/chapters/22897797
2. The Pathway By Scamasax After a darker outcome at Bespin, Luke makes a final bargain. Time travel
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11504716/1/The-Pathway
3. Fulfilling a Prophecy By: Kian-Rai Delcam
Qui-Gon’s eyes are gentle when he replies, “Changing fate is not always best, Vader. Whatever happens is as the Force wills it to be.” Vader scoffs, “I’m hardly a youngling to be lectured, Jedi. My knowledge of the Force is more complete than yours. You have not walked both sides of the Force as I have. The Force is neither an ally nor a slave, as the Jedi and Sith see it.”
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11806136/1/Fulfilling-a-Prophecy
4. Into the Past By SophieAnnWard
When the Force mysteriously sends Luke into the past-right in front of his Father in fact-will he be able to change the future, or will his efforts be in vain?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8889809/1/Into-the-Past
5. Shifting Sand By: SophieAnnWard
After the defeat of the Emperor and his Father’s death. Luke Skywalker wonders if he had made all the right choices. He then gets a second chance to save his Father and change the future. Luke goes back into the past - similar to my other completed story “Into The Past”.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12784615/1/Shifting-Sand-
6. Shattered By: CWBasset
The New Republic is on the brink of collapse. The Sith have reemerged, and war is on the horizon. Yet, everything that is happening around him feels utterly wrong… So when Luke Skywalker receives a mysterious offer to go back in time and correct the Galaxy’s destiny, how can he refuse?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5008174/1/Shattered
7. Redemption By lucky_ducky_123
The war against the Empire is finally over…however, young Luke Skywalker’s journey isn’t over yet. What happens when the Force decides to send Luke back in time to stop his father’s fall to the dark side? Will he succeed? Or will he alter too many details of the past and change the future for the worst?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/11134284/chapters/24846489
8. The Force Works In Mysterious Ways By: reddog24485
64 Year Old Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker. Wakes up in the body of his seventeen year old self. Realizing that he’s been given a chance to do things better this time around. He sets out to make great changes in the war with the Empire. Time Travel. L/M L/H
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11551203/1/The-Force-Works-In-Mysterious-Ways-
9. Change of Fate By: CrazyAni
What if the Force could grant your greatest desire? Luke Skywalker wishes to have known his father before he turned to the Dark Side. Could he change the fate of the galaxy by meeting Anakin? ROTS AU, timetravel. COMPLETED.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2846756/1/Change-of-Fate
10. The Red Past Toruvie l
Hanging below the Cloud City, in shock and pain, abandoned by friends dead and alive alike, Luke Skywalker knew better than to ask for help for the third time. He begged for understanding instead.
The Force heard.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/11402409/chapters/25539126
11. Back To The Future PinkEasterEggs :
Teenage Princess Leia, heir to Alderaan’s throne and her twin, Luke Vader, heir to the Imperial throne, get thrown back in time with the chance to save their parents before it’s too late. With the Force finally on their side, they decide to have a little fun whilst they try and save their father’s soul.
What could go wrong?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/22217674/chapters/53048092
12. Legacy myrlendi (thehistorygeek)
Three months after the Battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker goes in search of a rumoured Jedi temple in a secluded part of the Mid Rim. He finds within the temple nothing but a strange artifact, which unexpectedly brings him much closer to the Jedi of old than he ever thought he would be.
When Luke fails to return from his mission, Leia goes after him, retracing his steps to the ancient temple — and to the past, to the time of the Clone Wars and the waning years of the Old Republic. Under suspicion by the Jedi Order, the twins struggle to find a way back to their own time while trying to keep their knowledge of the future from affecting the past.
This, however, turns out to not be as simple as it seems.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/15221810/chapters/35304947
13. Working Back Back_At_It_Betty
Three years after Endor, Luke Skywalker- fighter pilot, Jedi Knight- is trying to keep a dying religion alive. Purely by accident, he finds a little more than he’d bargained for while playing archeologist on a long abondoned world.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16006655/chapters/37348433
14. To Cast Away Stones By: Darthishtar
In order to change the course of history, the Alliance undertakes a dangerous mission to eliminate Vader, led by Leia Organa, the girl he tormented, and Luke Skywalker, the son of the man he murdered. There’s just one catch: Vader doesn’t exist yet.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2926673/1/To-Cast-Away-Stones
15. To Gather Stones Together By: Darthishtar
After the climactic ending of To Cast Away Stones, Luke, Leia and Han return to the Alliance. They must face the consequences of what they have discovered and to fulfill their mission, one way or another.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3610244/1/To-Gather-Stones-Together
16. Ad Utrumque Paratus obeyingthemuse
It’s hard to bring balance to the Force when the only method you’ve seen is your black-cloaked psychic cyborg sorcerer dad with a severe breathing problem throwing an old man down the Death Star reactor shaft.
As much as Luke would like to see the not-yet-Emperor dead, he doesn’t want to be arrested by his unusually attractive(?) war-hero dad and spend the rest of his indeterminate time in the past dropping Ewok beats in a jail cell.
Also Leia would probably kill him. But not before breaking him out of jail.
So when the twins wake up on Tatooine decades in the past, they play it safe. They take over a planet, reconnect with their adoptive and real parents without weirding them out (too much), and accidentally cause the Chancellor perpetual near-death experiences.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/7168628/chapters/16273712
17. What’s Old Is New Again NotARealGeek
Luke and Leia die at the same moment in an evacuation turned violent, and as they pass into the Force it reaches out and stops them. Landed in the past, they have to fight to change a future that may well be set in stone.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/14971418/chapters/34696061
18. Just One Wish LadyVader23
On a trip to Dathomir, Anakin Skywalker finds a spell that will grant him one wish. Anxious to return home, he wishes for a way to end the war. As a result, he ends up accidentally kidnapping his future children…moments after they’ve escaped Bespin. Luke is quite done dealing with his mess of a father, and Leia is convinced telling the future Darth Vader about the future will only make it worse. Desperate, Anakin calls in the only person they might listen to: Padme Amidala. Too bad Padme has a surprise of her own…
https://archiveofourown.org/works/22028647/chapters/52571908
19. Chiaroscuro Starcross
“So”, Leia said, “you’re a ghost. From the future. Who, for some reason, came here to teach me the ways of the Force.”
“Yep.” “And who are you exactly?” The shapeless blob of light looked as embarassed as it was technically possible. “I’m your husband.”
In which Han refuses to leave for the afterlife, goes on a Force time-travelling road trip with beffudled Old Ben instead, and accidentally rewrites the entire cosmos. (It’s not ENTIRELY his fault if Leia is not impressed by that Jedi nonsense, or if spirits of ancient Sith lords keep popping up to offer their tutelage.)
Or - Obi-Wan can’t believe that not even death will stop the Skywalkers from dragging him into their drama. Maul thinks it’s hilarious.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/11377917/chapters/25474263
20 Star Wars: Second Chance Turtlephant
Luke Skywalker survived his fight with the Emperor, but his father didn’t. After the battle of Endor, Luke gets a chance to go back in time and set things right. How will things go down? Will Luke manage to save his father while maintaining his secret identity and without attracting Darth Sidious’s attention? Will he re-write the future, or will Anakin fall like before?
Star Wars AU
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars. Lucas Films/Disney do.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13267689/chapters/30355797
Part 1 of the A Second Chance, the Force Has Given Us series
21. Sith Lord Swell AMournfulHowlInTheNight
“Well, looks like we’re all Sith Lords, now. I hope you’ve all been practicing your most menacing laughter for our first run in with the Jedi Council.”
Ben could only sigh and raise a distasteful eyebrow at the cross shaped, red lightsaber he was given. Down the line other students were also handling their new weapons and robes with a raised eyebrow here and quizzical expression there.
“Really, uncle?”
“Really. I don’t want to compete with the local Jedi population.”
Why did Jedi politics and time travel have to be so difficult?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18880045/chapters/44813335
22. a thousand miles and poles apart kuchikopi
Some people are lost in the desert. Others are found.
In which there are sand storms, time travel and proof that wherever there is both galaxy-destroying potential and family drama, you’ll probably find a Skywalker at the middle of it.
(Or several.)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/11600223/chapters/26075190
23. In the Past SilverDaye
It’s been two months after Bespin, and Luke Skywalker is trying to come to terms with the events that happened there. During a dogfight with Darth Vader, both of their fighters crash. When they recover, they both find themselves on Coruscant at the end of the Clone Wars. Vader still aims to claim his son, but Luke has been taken to the Jedi Temple where he meets Anakin Skywalker.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16597682/chapters/38898149
This is only a small number but just some on top of my head. Enjoy @ https://silvereddaye.tumblr.com/ @silvereddaye
I’m going to add to this!
24. Of Queens, Knights, and Pawns by chancecraz
I went to sleep on the worst day of my life and woke to find myself in the past on the second worst day of my life. As experiences go, I don’t recommend it.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/8543680/chapters/19586203
Silver’s Comment: TFA Leia suddenly finds herself in the body of ANH Leia on board the Death Star.
25. Shifting Sands by chancecraz
After stupidly listening to Luke, Leia wakes up on Tatooine. Her day only gets worse.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13475223/chapters/30895236
25. Test of Time Book 1: A Father’s Son
Luke was walking the halls of the Jedi Temple when he was swept up by The Force, finding himself in the middle of a battle lead by his father Anakin Skywalker and his Master Obi-Wan Kenobi twenty-three years prior. Given the chance to get to know his father before he became Vader and possibly save him as well, will Luke be able to alter the past for the best? or make things worse?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10531332/1/Test-Of-Time-Book-1-A-Father-s-Son
Silver’s Comment: A great finished time-travel fic. I never got into Book 2, though it had an interesting concept. After the past timeline is fixed and Luke returns to his own timeline, the two timelines start to merge to right the time flow. So Anakin in the fixed timeline starts to have memories of being Vader though he himself was never Vader.
26. It's Like Deja Vu (All Over Again) by shadowsong26
Three days ago, Padme Amidala closed her eyes for the last time in a sterile white room on an asteroid at the edge of nowhere. Three days ago, she opened them again on a sleek, chrome starship, watching Dorme putting on the finishing touches to Corde's headdress, her own weighted braids a comforting blanket on her back.
Padme decides to change things, decides she can save Anakin (and the Galaxy) this time. Except, as time passes, she starts to realize things aren't happening exactly the way she remembers...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17806430
Silver notes: I love this one. It’s a short series, but so good. Especially for Anidala lovers.
27. Asajj Ventress and Her Tiny Time-Travelling Conscience by shadowsong26
We all love time travel fics, right? Here’s one with Luke. Tiny, precious, ten-year-old Luke.
Who accidentally travels back in time to the last year/year and a half of the Clone Wars.
And lands on Ventress.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16970586/chapters/39886068
28. A New History by Annie Walker
During a heated battle, Dooku escaped into the past! Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker follow to stop him, but discover that Dooku went to the past where Obi-Wan is a young padawan to a very much alive Qui-Gon Jinn. Now, the two must go undercover to stop Dooku's plans from coming to fruition in order to save not only the future, but also young Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11438301/1/A-New-History
Silver Notes: A fantastic fic, but sadly unfinished. However with a word count over 500k , there is a lot to read. It does have an Obikin leaning, but nothing romantic.
29. Hope from the Future by wcv
Luke Skywalker and his droids are sent back from the beginning of A New Hope to the events of The Phantom Menace. But those who would seek to better the future would do well to remember, the future is always in flux, and those who would improve it should do so with care.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12875464/1/Hope-from-the-Future
Silver Notes: SPOILERS------------> This is an interesting time travel fic it that it has Luke turning to the Dark Side.
30. The Exchange by MissLearn
The Daughter has a bad day and it irrevocably changes the fate of the galaxy, twice over.
ROTS Obi-Wan and Anakin are swapped with their younger, TPM, selves. It changes things, in both parallels.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/8911009/chapters/20414146
31. Stand the Hazard, part 1 by KeelieThompson1
A plot from the future to save the past effectively ends Anakin Skywalker's career as a Jedi knight.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12450669/1/Stand-the-Hazard
Silver Notes: I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SERIES. This is one of my all time fav fics.
32. Darken They Eyes by Encaitare Skirata
Luke Skywalker. A farmboy to an Imperial Prince overnight. With the Darkside within him and his Father at his back, who can stop him... except maybe the Past. AU. Dark!Luke.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12900276/1/Darken-Thy-Eyes
Silver Notes: This a 4 chapter long WIP, and I doubt it will be updated. But it has such an interesting concept of Dark Luke going back int time to the Clone Wars.
33. Like Fire in Our Bones by acuteneurosis
With all of the most important things in the galaxy literally exploding around her, Leia is given the chance to go back and help keep a promise she never personally made.
But then, for Skywalkers, saving the galaxy was always a family matter.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/19735813/chapters/46710241
34. Reprise by Elfpen
Ben Kenobi dies aboard the Death Star in the year 0 BBY. He wakes up shortly thereafter in the Jedi temple in the year 41 BBY. Haunted by memories and regret, Ben must forge a new path for himself in the Jedi Order of his youth while navigating the murky waters of time travel. Crafting a better future from bitter experience is hard, but learning to heal is even harder. Major AU.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11612505/1/Reprise
Silver Notes: Another series I personally highly recommend.
35. The Desert Storm by Blue_Sunshine
In Tatooine legend, the sandstorm is Lukka, the Fury, both cleansing and damning. Lukka, the slaves believed, was Justice, was he who remade the world, and remade the soul.
The storm screams at him, and Obi-Wan Kenobi screams back.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18206480?view_full_work=true
Fics with Time Travel Elements, but not completely Time Travel
1. A Peculiar Dream by LPK9
Luke Skywalker, age 20, has a very strange dream one night. The future changes. Post ANH AU. Now with second Epilogue!
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12549483/1/A-Peculiar-Dream
2. Heirs to the Empire by jlcleaumus
AU. En route to Endor, Luke, Leia, and Han find themselves transported into a different universe and a different Empire, with a different Vader. Completed, with final notes and thoughts.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12847427/1/Heirs-to-the-Empire
3. Piecing Together the Truth by Steph's Puppet
"Blinking rapidly, Leia turned her head around and surveyed her unfamiliar surroundings with a look of wide-eyed panic. Instead of the cold and clinical corridors of the Imperial monstrosity she had been on only moments ago, now she stood in the middle of a crowded street market on some unknown planet." Warning: upsetting content.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12402132/1/Piecing-Together-the-Truth
4. Out of the Dark Valley by irhinoceri
15 years after the events of RotS, Darth Vader discovers a way to time travel backwards through the Force, to the moment in his past he most regrets. This creates an alternate timeline where he has the opportunity to change his and Padmé's tragic fate. But reliving the past and making a new future will prove to be no easy task, and the sins of the father will have lasting effects on the next generation. (AU from Mustafar onward. Ensemble PoV featuring Anakin, Padmé, Obi-Wan, Luke, Leia, and Mara Jade. Skywalker family focus with mild Anidala and LukeMara elements. Background Barrissoka. Rated T for violence and dark themes.)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/6281581/chapters/14393407
Silver Notes: While this one does have a time travel set-up, the time travel aspect fades away as this fic goes on. It’s still really good though!
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Luke Skywalker travels to the past to stop Sidious and the turn of Anakin Skywalker. If you like a good Time-Travel fanfiction and want to see Luke save his father you have come to the right place!
However, this link would probably be a good place to start - it's the 'luke skywalker' tag on ao3, with the added time travel tag, and sorted by kudos. you will also get things where leia and whatnot travel from sequel to original trilogies, but there should be a good selection to choose from, more if you add in the prequel era tag, which i did ...
In which Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader travel back in time together to the Clone Wars era, have amazing adventures, and save the galaxy.
An archive of stories where Luke goes into the time of Clone wars. After his conversation with Obi-Wan's spirit on Dagobah in ROTJ, Luke is thrown back in time right in the middle of ROTS, days before his father's turn. Stuck in Padme's apartment, he struggles to figure out the reason that brought him there.
The Clone Wars are in full swing and the 501st is temporarily reassigned under the Jedi Pong Krell who, unbeknownst to the Jedi order, has Fallen to the Dark Side. However, everything changes with the sudden appearance of a black-clad Jedi with a green lightsaber and his father, a cyborg who follows the way of the Sith and knows far more about what is going on than anyone else...
Luke and Leia's Excellent Adventure By: LPK9. A meeting between the Jedi High Council and Chancellor Palpatine is interrupted by two visitors from the future. Crack fic. ROTS AU. Time travel fix it, LPK9 style. Now a multi chapter fic involving Luke and Leia dashing through time and space interfering with timelines.
I'm reading Significant Brain Damage by AppoApples on AO3 and it's really good story, with a great plot. Luke travels back in time and finds himself in Anakin's body.
Fives accidentally touches a Force artifact that hurls him into the future to meet Luke between ANH and ESB. Attack of the (Time-Traveling) Clones. Rex, Cody, and some of their subordinates somehow find themselves on Naboo just in time to intervene in Qui-Gon's and Obi-Wan's duel with Maul. Fudging Futures.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Yuuzhan'tar, Mara Jade watches as her husband's life ebbs away. Leia and the Solo family have been destroyed in the destruction of Shimrra's citadel due to Nom Anor's treachery. Mara wished Luke could be saved, that their lives could have been lived in peace rather than turmoil.
The Force works in mysterious ways Yan Dooku timetravel/vision, he takes action. Sith Lord Swell Luke and a bunch of students from his academy get sent to prequel era and pretend to be sith. Ad utrumque paratus: Luke and Leia go back to prequel era, do the logical thing and take over tattooine. Good stuff.
Movies Star Wars. Saving the Last Hope By: Aaveena. Kylo Ren and Rey find themselves in the desert on Tatooine right at the beginning of A New Hope. When Obi Wan Kenobi dies long before he is supposed to, it is up to Kylo to make sure the timeline stays the way it should, or else risk never being born. Of course, Darth Vader, who has sensed a ...
Movies Star Wars. Impromptu Time Travel By: Trevyler. Luke is meditating in the lower levels of the old Jedi Temple post Return of the Jedi when he makes a sudden trip to the past long before his birth. He doesn't know what he's doing here and he doesn't really have a plan, but he'll try to make the best of it.
Yoda: Grandmaster of the Jedi Order, serving member of the Jedi Council. Luke Skywalker's second master in pre-time travel universe. Unknown Species - 877 Years Old
Duo Maxwell, former gundam pilot and ex-Preventer agent, gets isekai'd into 17th century England. When he wakes up, he is arrested, branded a heretic (because he's dressed like a Catholic priest at the height of Protestant vs Catholic conflicts in Britain), and escapes by dressing up and pretending to be a woman.
When Luke fails to return from his mission, Leia goes after him, retracing his steps to the ancient temple — and to the past, to the time of the Clone Wars and the waning years of the Old Republic.